Unclassified road crash in Gloucester GL2 on 25 February 2004 at 08:29 involving a Bedford bus
A Bedford bus and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester at 08:29 on Wednesday 25 February 2004. The 27-year-old male driver of the Bedford bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2004
- Wednesday, 08:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bedford and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81652, longitude -2.27705, in the GL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Quedgeley and Hardwicke. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hardwicke, Stroud, GL2 4QY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004530AI0827
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2019.
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 27 August 2019
38 m awayRef 2019530874517
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 19 November 2020
60 m awayRef 2020531021072
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 15 July 1981
60 m awayRef 1981530WI0437
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 18 December 2014
94 m awayRef 2014530209320
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 8 December 1999
98 m awayRef 1999530AI4714
Serious
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 24 November 2001
98 m awayRef 2001530AI4108
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bedford)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2004530AI0827 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2004.